[Solved] Animation while casting spell?

[Zaio]

Hey guys, i need help, im making a spell but im not entirely sure how to make a unit play animation WHILE its casting a spell (Not a channel spell) the spell is fan of knives with a 2 second cast time, ive tried using begins casting an ability, yet still nothing. So in short; how do you give units casting spells with wait animation? +rep and my gratitude for anyone that helps!

 

[Bannar]

Channel mean not channeling yes? or channel based? :S

If you want to force your ability to play animation fill proper tags in field Art - Animation tags. Just select your ability in Ability Editor and find this field in 'Art' section.
With triggers there are few ways:
You can either use:

• init
  • Events
    • Unit - Starts the effect of ability
  • Conditions
    • <stuff here>
  • Actions
    • Unit - Play (Triggering unit)'s ANIMATIONTAG animation

Where ANIMATIONTAG is string of given animation like: 'move' or 'attack'.

You can also use:

• Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_yourunit, ANIMATIONNUMBER)

Where yourunit is unit variable and ANIMATIONNUMBER is integer via which target animation is played - each animation has it's own number but its differend for every unit.

You can check animation numbers for your unit with simple trigger:

• init
  • Events
    • Time - Every 2 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: call SetUnitAnimationByIndex(udg_yourunit, udg_i)
    • Game - Display to (All players) message: String(i)
    • Set i =( i +1)

Where 'i' is simple integer variable set by default to 0 and with it's help you will check number for each animation - and for sure you will get the number you need.

 

[Zaio]

Thanks + rep